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[switchbladesis]

 My downstairs neighbors have decided to put manniquin heads on one of the giant piles of snow on our front lawn.  I'm not wondering where they got the heads from (I think it's the next door neighbors with a giant igloo on their front lawn-they had some mannequin arms out a while ago-otherwise, Ax Man), but I am wondering how long they're planning to keep them there.  Are they going to let them get covered by the next few inches of snow?  Are they going to let them tumble around when the thaw comes, get half-buried in the mud?  Or are they going to carefully monitor their upkeep over the next few months, brushing the snow out of their mannequin hair?

My neighbors on the other side of us from the igloo made a really lovely ice sculpture.  I'm not quite sure how me and my boyfriend managed to become the squares on this block, but I don't really mind.  I just wish I had some more free time so that I could contribute.

Anyway:  voice meme!

. . . which I managed to fuck up.  I did this in three separate parts, but mangled the first two trying to splice them together in audacity (grargrarinterfacegrar).  Since I don't know the next time I'll be alone in a quiet place, I'll just post the part I managed not to mangle.  You'll get the general idea anyway.  Also, since I did this on my cell phone, the sound quality is horrible.  

What I was supposed to do:

Make a voice recording with the following items:

Your name and/or username
Where you're from
The following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting Image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Orange, Coffee, direction, naturally, aluminium and herbs

What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

And this is the passage you're supposed to read:

Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.

(Hi, I'm Switchbladesis and I'm from Chicago, Illinois, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Comments

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

No one around here ever does anything cool with the snow :( I'm going to have to suck it up and make a snowman or something.

[switchbladesis.livejournal.com]

Well, if it's going to be around until April, I guess we all figure we might as well do something with it.

I'd like to at least make a snow dalek, but I'm honestly not home for long enough during the day.

[gabby-silang.livejournal.com]

Giiiiirl, I can hear some Minnesota creeping in there. And it's adorable.

For low-investment snow art, just get lots of red food dye and toss some blood splatter out there! :D

[switchbladesis.livejournal.com]

Oh god, my accent sounds like the unfortunate mating of an old style commercial and Fargo. I better not move to the U.P., or nobody will ever take me seriously ever again.

It's hilarious, because everyone in the Twin Cities SWEARS they don't have an accent-you'd only find that in rural areas/up north. I just want to shake them and yell 'How can you not even know what you've done to me?!'

Haha, on top of the mannequin heads? Or in the other massive snow piles? I could also try to make Calvin-style grotesques-we certainly have enough snow.

[gabby-silang.livejournal.com]

Aaaha, I have a handful of friends who went to college in the Twin Cities, and slowly but surely they all fell prey.

I'm so stupidly jealous of your snow. Stupidly because of course then I'd be deeply, deeply inconvenienced, but stilllll! We've had two total days of snow here this winter so far, not even enough for a wimpy little snowman.

[switchbladesis.livejournal.com]

Our weatherman yesterday was talking about how we've already surpassed the average winter snowfall . . . and we've got another month and a half (at least) to go.

Although I think Georgia has gotten more snow than you by now.

[phreid.livejournal.com]

Do an image search for snow AT-AT, if you haven't seen it already.

I'm considering doing the accent thing, but I have a horrid time pronouncing things consistently. I'd have to do two: one the way I pronounce words typically, and one the way I pronounce them when I'm paying attention.

There's a little bit of Chicago in my accent (from my dad, never been there long enough to pick it up directly) and a few weirdnesses from reading words before hearing them spoken, which I have trouble excising but do so whenever possible.

Also, I pick up the inflections and expressions of whoever I happen to be talking with most frequently at the time, so I'd probably have some Rhode Island this week.

[switchbladesis.livejournal.com]

Hee-I've seen that one: we've got a lot of snow, but I don't know if we have that much snow. A snow dalek is doable, though-as long as the bottom foot of snow isn't actually ice (which it probably is at this point).

And yeah, this is definitely my 'trying to pronounce everything clearly' voice.

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

I like your neighbors' sense of humor. For some reason I am reminded of the Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin lets loose his creativity on the poor snowmen. :D

[switchbladesis.livejournal.com]

Ha, I was suggesting we should make our own calvin-style grotesques upthread.

I'm fond of my neighbor's sense of humor, too. :D